BTS Army Matched the Band’s $1 Million Donation to Black Lives Matter

The BTS Army matched the band’s $1 million donation to Black Lives Matter

V and RM of BTS. Photo: Getty Images for iHeartMedia The seven boys of BTS — Jin, Jimin, RM, Jungkook, J-Hope, Suga, and V — along with their label revealed Saturday that they donated $1 million to Black Lives Matter. On Sunday, their fans said, “Hold my merch.” In just over 24 hours, a team of stans called One in an Army, had raised $1,026,531 thanks to 35,609 donors. If you’re thinking that’s a lot of allowance for some tweens, you gotta change your perspective on the BTS Army.

Together, fans donated to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Black Lives Matter, Black AIDS Institute, the ACLU, the National Bailout Collective, and many more. “We’ve run big projects before, but the amount of support for this project is overwhelming,” a spokesperson for One in an Army said in a press release. “We truly didn’t know whether the goal would be reached.

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